When the Llama Drinks from the Stars and the Spider Weaves Cycles of Life, Where the Sky Touches the Earth and Time Expands Like Salt, the Sanctuary of Water Are Fair Clouds on the Horizon.

“This new exhibition brings together two central strands of Saraceno’s long-term research — Aerocene and Arachnophilia — alongside a new commission developed in close collaboration with the Indigenous commu­ni­ties of Las Salinas Grandes in northern Argentina. Their ongoing struggle against lithium extraction, and the pressure it places on the region’s water cycles, becomes the starting point for an artwork that reaches beyond the exhibition space.”

El Santuario del Agua (The Sanctuary of Water) is being conceived for and with the Indigenous communities of Salinas Grandes, with the support of Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, Aerocene Foundation, Studio Tomás Saraceno, and many others. It is carried forward by the leading role and constant presence of the 11 communities that form the Red Atacama Community of Salinas Grandes.